Indian Boy Ashok Elluswamy To Head Tesla’s Autopilot Team
(The Quiver) Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk revealed through his Twitter that how he chose Ashok Elluswamy from India to work as an autopilot team director at his electric vehicle company.
Forbes states that Musk is the wealthiest person in the world having a net worth of around USD 282 billion, most of it in Tesla stock.
Musk recently tweeted that Tesla is looking for hardcore Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineers who care about solving problems that directly affect people’s lives in a major way.
Indian boy Ashok Elluswamy is the first employee to be hired for Tesla’s Autopilot team.
“I tweeted that Tesla is about to launch an auto pilot team. Through that tweet, Ashok was the first to be selected in the auto pilot team,” Musk said in a tweet.
Elluswamy before joining Tesla, has worked with WABCO Vehicle Control System and has interned with Volkswagon Electronic Research Lab.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai and a Master’s degree in Robotics System Development from Carnegie Mellon University.
As per a LinkedIn endorsement from Elluswamy’s professor at CMU, John Dalon, he was one of the top students and showed initiative in learning a wide variety of topics.
